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We can somewhat account for such influences, and to a relatively high degree of accuracy in specific cases. Without our ability to choreograph ballets...

You don't seem to understand that Dawkins wasn't too concerned about the people who engage in critical thinking regarding the notion of God, as in phi...

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/technical/technical.html: https://www.saltwatersportsman.com/story/gear/how-to-choose-the-best-fish-finder-f...

This would hardly be the technological challenge you make it out to be. The depths at which the pipeline was damaged are within technical scuba diving...

Bzzzzt! Aristotle is probably not the best source, regarding the nature of batteries. Also the subject was potential energy. Voltage is not energy. ht...

I'd use "characteristic" rather than "feature", but we are evolutionarily inclined to be somewhat xenophobic. You might call it an aspect of monkey mi...

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Perhaps it means that your brain is intuitively projecting meaning onto the question, despite where your more consciously reasoned thinking points? To...

I read about half way through "The Grace of Kings" but lost interest, largely due to the poor characterization. The book might have a lot of merit, as...

Have you tried that AI generated art site T. Clark posted about? You might have the makings of a masterpiece there.

Why only, "through logical limitations and consequences"? Could you elaborate? I'd be more inclined to say, that we can only know the world through ou...

Well, I find it to be a matter of skill in considering things, to be able to look at things from different perspectives, so I'm apt to apply the sort ...

Your cat looks pretty ferocious.

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Everyone is working with whatever set of intuitions that they have, but people are diverse. Wouldn't we expect some to catch on more quickly than othe...

To answer the OP... Psychotherapy? When the best psychotherapists are AIs, we might be doomed.

You seem to be confusing evidence with ways of modeling things. Your question doesn't make much sense to me.

There is a matter of perspective here. You should have seen the state of things 36 years ago, when I started looking into the subject. The progress in...

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Yes, it just seemed relevant to me to point out that there are a variety of mathematically legitimate ways that can yield correct mathematical results...

About those 'quotes'... Wikiquote says the one attributed to Heisenberg is misattributed. The second 'quote' has no attribution and Google doesn't see...

Then in your case, isn't the answer to your title question, "Somewhat, yes."?

From the evolution of tetrapods. Are you a young earth or old earth creationist?

Thanks for taking the time. I'm reading PI right now, but haven't gotten that far. Insightful stuff.

Does Kripke question the extent to which consciously following a rule even applies? For example, having worked with digital logic a fair bit, I have a...

I wouldn't call it a fallacy so much as being an aspect of the way our brains model the world in simplistic manageable chunks. I suppose it creates th...

Gore Tex patterns. https://www.gore-tex.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_article_large/public/blog_images/2019_12%20Membrane/membrane%20pores.jpg?h...

Worse than nonsense, I think, if it results in not being able to make a distinction between God and truth.

Pragmatically speaking, distinguishing things and events as different ontological categories is extremely valuable, and this is so strongly intuitivel...

Perhaps periods of time in an emotional state are more reasonably understood as events than as things? I'd say that from such a perspective our inabil...

Sounds like something that happens routinely in engineering labs. Points to waveform on oscilloscope and says, "The op amp doesn't have the balls to d...

And telling lies about atheists and agnostics is justified because of that?

So why is it that you weren't able to look at your own experience of being an atheist and recognize the following statement as nonsense?

Were you a person who believed nothing when you were an atheist?

Nah, you'll have to step outside your cultural bubble and learn what atheists and agnostics think for yourself, if you want to see through the propaga...

None of that answers my question. I get the impression you don't actually know any atheists or agnostics well enough to have much understanding of the...

Why do you believe that?

The article is about replicating logic gates with microorganisms, not vice versa as you suggest.

:100: @"Leontiskos" The reason I haven't challenged the minor is because I am lazy. Not because there is not good reason to.

Sure. To me it seems quite explainable that we can't totally explain it. Humanity is still developing the conceptual and techological tools that would...

Greene is a physicist, not a neuroscientist. Try Damasio's The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness.

Inasmuch as idealism is unfalsifiable, it is rather uninteresting that you find the evidence I presented doesn't falsify idealism. I don't see "should...

:up: Strictly speaking, science doesn't prove anything. On the other hand, science has provided us with some of the most reliable beliefs we have. Tha...

I want to emphasize aspects of what Brian Greene wrote: We don't know nearly as much as we would like. However, I've been watching progress in neurosc...

It's not clear to me that greater capability for doing things successfully is an indicator of greater freedom. Contrary to your suggestion that 'we mu...

The effect of general anesthesia in suppressing consciousness. The effect of mind altering drugs. The fact that human intuition 'looks like' the resul...

It does seem that people are quite 'free' not to do so. :wink:

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Because the person took a serious look at the evidence, perhaps?